☕️ Sunday Coffee: Phyllis Stone and the Forty-Year Dividend Miracle
The Foundation of Ordinary Wealth
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Intro
In an era defined by financial noise and speculative distraction, the story of Phyllis Archer Stone reads like an essay on market gravity—how time, dividends, and patience conspire to lift ordinary investors beyond their own expectations. Stone was not a finance professional.
She worked most of her life in real estate administration for Mobil Oil, never married, lived quietly in Albany, New York, and enjoyed Grateful Dead concerts.
Yet when she died in 2013 at age ninety‑one, her estate exceeded six million dollars—an almost perfect laboratory outcome for what happens when corporate capitalism meets individual persistence.
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